I realise this is an English Q&A site, but I was hoping someone on here might also be versed in Latin and be able to help.
It is for a tattoo I am getting designed. My first search turned up the result "Sanguis Eternus", but I am not 100% convinced this is correct.
Can anyone help? Cheers!

People often refer to the country US as America and to the people from the US as Americans.
As far as I know, that's the only case in the world where a continent's name is used for a country's name (let me know if I'm wrong). Why does that happen?

Look at this famous phrase used by a British talkshow host when saying goodbye to his audience:
'Nice to see you, to see you nice!'
Nobody in the UK (including my grandmother who was a frequent viewer) seemed to think it sounded strange...
I think it's grammatically acceptable - due to som...

Hi all,
I'm wondering wether or not I should use a plural form noun with a collection name. For example, which one is correct, bookList or booksList (obviously they are variables in a programming language)?
Thanks in advance.
Kai.

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“user accounts” or “users account”?
If I mean "number of lessons", which grammatical construction should I go for? I can imagine three of them:
Lesson count
Lessons count
Lessons' count

Is it correct to say "user accounts" or "users account", when referring to the accounts any user has on a site like this one?
In general, in the case of a noun that is used as adjective for the noun that follows, is it better to use <plural-noun> <singular-noun> or <singular-noun&g...

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“user accounts” or “users account”?
I keep asking myself which form is the most correct when listing items on a website:
"Article list"
or "Articles list"?
Also, when nothing was found, do you say:
"No items were found"
or "No item was ...

That's like saying, don't go watch Titanic, it sucks. Well, thanks a bunch but I would like to build my own opinion. Even if I know in advance, even if I am 100% certain that Titanic sucks, I will still watch it. Because otherwise, how can I possibly argue why it sucks?

I read a story by Ursula K. LeGuin which was about ants creating literature out of chemical compounds that they could "read" with their antennae. I wish she had gone into the language aspect of it more.

Following is the stanza
Teach us delight in simple things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And Love to all men' neath the sun!
What does second line and third line mean?
And does the last line mean love to all people who work hard under the ...

"Any verb in ASL can be modified to indicate that the action is being done continuously: the signer superimposes an arclike motion on the sign and repeats it quickly. A verb can also be modified to indicate that the action is being done to more than one object (for example, several candles): the signer terminates the sign in once location in space, then repeats it but terminates it at another location."

"These inflections can be combined in either of two orders: blow toward the left and then toward the right and repeat, or blow toward the left twice and then blow toward the right twice.

"The first order means 'to blow out the candles on one cake, then another cake, then the first cake again, then the second cake again'; the second means 'to blow out the candles on one cake continuously, and then blow out the candles on another cake continuously'."

Your earlier question was closed as an exact duplicate. That means someone else already asked the same question and got good answers. I suggest you check them out. There's a link in posted in your earlier closed question.

It certainly feels off-topicish, as per the FAQ (criticism and discussion of English Literature). But we have to keep in mind that it is fundamentally not very different from Yoichi's questions. Here's a weird sentence, what does it mean.

Yeah well, as I said, I dunno. I'd probably vote to close if my vote weren't binding. The point is, deciphering someone's words is deciphering someone's words, be that someone Rudyard Kipling, Charlie Sheen, or a Washigton Post scribe.

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This is an attempt to reconcile two extreme positions in a way that is acceptable to the majority of the community:
Some might feel it's irrelevant that it's homework:we should always provide a complete answer.
Others might feel this site is not the pla...

I've been fortunate in that around here, the "bad" stuff is really just blander. It's still tasty, just not exquisite. It isn't gross by any means. We get a lot of "California-style" rolls that I'd never see in Japan, but they go over well enough in the little sushi bars here.

My opinion of sushi (and chopsticks) is that I'm not living in the stone age. I don't need to eat with sticks, because there are much better tools available. Similarly, I don't need to eat my protein while it's still raw and disgusting, because we have the technology to cook it.

Thanks for the link, but that's all common sense, at least to me personally. This bit is especially relevant: "Chomsky’s notion of Universal Grammar (UG) has been mistaken, not for what it is – namely, the programmatic label for whatever it turns out to be that all children bring to learning a language – but for a set of substantial research ﬁndings about what all languages have in common." That really says it all.

@Robusto Well, yeah, I've used quite a few chopsticks in various crafty projects, or for reaching into deepish crevasses, that sort of thing. The one thing they're not suited to is delivering food from the plate to the mouth. They are especially unsuited to delivering rice from the plate to the mouth.